Prediction of corrosion rate in reinforced concrete structures – a critical review and preliminary results

This paper presents a critical review of some of the available corrosion rate prediction models focusing mainly on chloride‐induced corrosion. In addition to the proposals made for the improvement of these models, preliminary results of an ongoing study aimed at developing a chloride‐induced corrosion rate prediction model using both natural and accelerated corrosion results are presented. Even though a reasonable correlation between natural and accelerated i_corr is presented here, more data are still required to ascertain the relationship.